How do you get the Git repository s name in some Git repository

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When you are working in some Git directory  how can you get the Git repository name in some Git repository  Are there any Git commands     I did check out bar repository and working in somewhere    under bar directory at this moment such as below     git clone git   github com foo bar git   cd bar baz qux quux corge grault   and I am working in here    git xxx    lt -     bar

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A little bit late for this question  but if you   cat  path to repo  git config   You will see the url of the repository which will include the reponame    core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   true     bare   false     logallrefupdates   true     ignorecase   true     precomposeunicode   true  remote  origin       url   https   github com your git user name your git repo name git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    branch  master       remote   origin     merge   refs heads master

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There s no need to contact the repository to get the name  and the folder name won t necessarily reflect the remote name   I ve found this to be the most accurate and efficient way to get the current repository name   basename -s  git  git config --get remote origin url    This should work as of Git 1 8 1 5  Prior to this  the now deprecated git-repo-config command would have worked  as early as Git 1 7 5

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Here s a bash function that will print the repository name  if it has been properly set up      get reponame          local gitdir   git rev-parse --git-dir       if     cat   gitdir  description      Unnamed repository  edit this file  description  to name the repository      then         cat   gitdir  description     else         echo  Unnamed repository       fi     Explanation   local gitdir   git rev-parse --git-dir    This executes git rev-parse --git-dir  which prints the full path to the  git directory of the currrent repository  It stores the path in  gitdir   if     cat   gitdir  description              then   This executes cat   gitdir  description  which prints the contents of the  git description of your current repository  If you ve properly named your repository  it will print a name  Otherwise  it will print Unnamed repository  edit this file  description  to name the repository   cat   gitdir  description   If the repo was properly named  then print the contents   else   Otherwise     echo  Unnamed repository     Tell the user that the repo was unnamed     Something similar is implemented in this script

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Also I just find that there is some repo information inside  git directory  So you can just watch FETCH HEAD file in terminal to see repo s name   Example   cd your project folder  git more FETCH HEAD   Output   672e38391557a192ab23a632d160ef37449c56ac        https   bitbucket org fonjeekay some repo   And https   bitbucket org somebituser some repo git is the name of your repository

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Here s mine   git remote --verbose   grep origin   grep fetch   cut -f2   cut -d    -f1   no better than the others  but I made it a bash function so I can drop in the remote name if it isn t origin   grurl        xx remote  1     -z   xx remote     amp  amp  xx remote origin   git remote --verbose   grep   1    grep fetch   cut -f2   cut -d    -f1   unset xx remote

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This approach using git-remote worked well for me for HTTPS remotes     git remote -v   grep   fetch     sed  s                    1                                                                                                                                  ---------------                                                                Extract capture                                                       -------------------- -----                                                   Repository name capture                                                   -----------------------    Example

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Well  if  for the repository name you mean the Git root directory name  the one that contains the  git directory  you can run this   basename  git rev-parse --show-toplevel    The git rev-parse --show-toplevel part gives you the path to that directory and basename strips the first part of the path

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If you want the whole GitHub repository name   full name   - user repository  and you want to do it in with Ruby     git remote show origin -n   ruby -ne  puts    s Fetch        git  match     1  rescue nil

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I think this is a better way to unambiguously identify a clone of a repository   git config --get remote origin url and checking to make sure that the origin matches ssh   your repo

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In general  you cannot do this  Git does not care how your git repository is named  For example  you can rename directory containing your repository  one with  git subdirectory   and git will not even notice it - everything will continue to work   However  if you cloned it  you can use command   git remote show origin   to display a lot of information about original remote that you cloned your repository from  and it will contain original clone URL   If  however  you removed link to original remote using git remote rm origin  or if you created that repository using git init  such information is simply impossible to obtain - it does not exist anywhere

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Repo full name   git config --get remote origin url   grep -Po     lt  git github  com           git

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This one works pretty well with git-2 18 2 and can be launched from outside git target repository   basename -s  git   git --git-dir   lt project-path gt   git remote get-url origin

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You can use       git remote -v  Documentation  https   git-scm com docs git-remote     Manage the set of repositories   remotes   whose branches you track    -v   --verbose Be a little more verbose and show remote url after name  NOTE  This must be placed between remote and subcommand

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If you are trying to get the username or organization name AND the project or repo name on github  I was able to write this command which works for me locally at least     git config --get remote origin url     gt  https   github com Vydia gourami git    git config --get remote origin url   sed  s                         1     Capture last 2 path segments before the dot in  git     gt  Vydia gourami   This is the desired result as Vydia is the organization name and gourami is the package name  Combined they can help form the complete User Repo path

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Other answers still won t work when the name of your directory does not correspond to remote repository name  and it could   You can get the real name of the repository with something like this   git remote show origin -n   grep  Fetch URL     sed -E  s            1     sed  s  git      Basically  you call git remote show origin  take the repository URL from  Fetch URL   field  and regex it to get the portion with name  https   github com dragn neat-vimrc git

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In git v2 7 0   a subcommand get-url was introduced to git-remote command   POSIX shell   basename   git remote get-url origin    PowerShell   Split-Path -Leaf  git remote get-url origin

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Unfortunately  it seems that Git has no such command built in  But you can easily add it yourself with Git aliases and some shell magic   As pointed out by this answer  you can use git rev-parse --show-toplevel to show the root of your current Git folder   If you want to use this regularly  it s probably more convenient to define it as an alias  For this  used git config alias root   echo    git rev-parse --show-toplevel     After this  you can use git root to see the root folder of the repository you re currently in   If you want to use another subcommand name than root  simply replace the second part of alias root in the above command with whatever you want   For details on aliases in Git  see also the git config man page

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